Chinese academics specialising in Tibet must find more creative ways to shape the global conversation about the region while remaining strictly aligned with the Communist Party’s ideology. That was the message Li Ganjie, head of the Communist Party’s United...

This season, climbers attempted the 8,849-metre peak from the Nepal side after China closed the northern route through Tibet

A revered statue’s grounds become a horseracing field. Cultural erasure in historical Tibet now proceeds through construction as much as demolition and removal. The post From Buddha to Racetrack: A Sacred Site in Drakgo Is Rewritten by Force first...

Tibetan spiritual leader Tenzin Gyatso received his first Grammy award for his spoken-word album.

Chinese police of Labrang Township in Sangchu County took into custody Jamyang Tashi, a Tibetan Buddhist monk from Labrang Tashikhyil Monastery. Source

Perhaps you should spend a little more time on Flightradar24. Here’s what you might learn... The post Looking to the sky reveals much about what’s happening on the ground appeared first on Monocle.

Conservative MP Shuvaloy Majumdar is warning that the Chinese regime is suppressing Canada’s creative industries, as Culture Minister Marc Miller concluded a three-day visit to China in an effort to advance Canada’s commercial cultural and diplomatic relations in the...

The Tibetan movement has long been dependent on the personal moral authority of the Dalai Lama. In a post-Dalai Lama world, the Central Tibetan Administration will need to step up. 

Penpa Tsering on Wednesday was sworn in for a second consecutive term as the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile following his re-election earlier this year.Tsering, 58, h...

Penpa Tsering has been sworn in for a second term as the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile based in India

Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prayed as the leader of the elected goverment of Tibetans in exile was sworn in for a second term on Wednesday. The India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) — condemned by China as “nothing...

“This is not called peace, this is called surrender!” political leaders and activists shouted in central Taipei’s bustling shopping district on May 23. 57 civic groups and thousands of people were gathered to protest legislative cuts to Taiwan’s defense...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A renowned Mount Everest guide who this week scaled the peak a record 32nd time urged authorities on Friday to limit climbers on the summit.The number of climbers making the ascent on the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak from the...

You don’t have to buy a ticket to enjoy decent festival food – here are a few ideas for bringing the party homeSign up here for our weekly food newsletter, FeastThis weekend, my social media was flooded with swoon-worthy...

Season 3 Episode 6 of The Election Observer podcast, sheds light on the plight of the Tibetan diaspora community in pursuit of self determination. The post Democracy Without Borders: Observing the 2026 Tibetan General Elections | The Election Observer...

At least since the 1980s, American leaders visiting Beijing were traditionally expected to raise the Tibetan issue during bilateral meetings. Not anymore.

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck south China’s Guangxi region on Monday, killing two people and causing 13 buildings to collapse, state media reported. The quake hit Guangxi’s Liuzhou city at 12:21 am (1621 GMT), state news agency Xinhua said. The...

KATHMANDU -- Nepal has protested against India's decision to reopen a Himalayan pass leading to a revered Hindu pilgrimage site in Tibet, reviving a territorial dispute between the two neighbors.

Boston – As U.S. President Donald Trump travels to Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping, Tibet Action Institute is calling for the closure of China’s mandatory boarding school system in Tibet as new testimony from a former student tells of “widespread” physical abuse. The boarding school system holds approximately one million Tibetan children [1]. The former student describes a “severe” environment where “broken hands, fractured fingers, and bruised backs were common.” Abuse was so routine that “students began to normalize this treatment and rarely told their parents…it was so widespread that no single incident stands out, there were simply too many.” The student was forced to attend both elementary and secondary boarding school after their parents were pressured by authorities [2].

The Hudson Institute, a Washington based think tank, hosts a discussion at 1 p.m. ET on May 12 on a new book by former U.S. senator and ambassador at large for international religious freedom in the first Trump administration,...

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The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) deployed an independent International Expert Election Observation Mission (IEEOM) to assess the 2026 elections for the 18th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPiE).  This mission, conducted in coordination with the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT),...

Villagers complained that they can't fight back because Tibetan brown bears are a protected species. Officials accused them of spreading rumors.

One track pursued traditional intelligence collection against Asian governments and defense entities; the other sought to surveil and silence overseas critics.

United Front chief Li Ganjie’s visit to historically Tibetan areas in Gansu and Sichuan was aimed at regulating the religion of Tibetans—and local Hui Islam—strictly according to Party standards. The post “Sinicizing” Tibetan Buddhism, One Inspection Tour at a...